you need to get used to rightclicking alot. both things you mentioned are now hidden in the rightclick menu for the instrument-panel and the patterneditor. to add a sendtrack you need to rightclick on a sendtrack and choose “insert track”.
Am I being silly? Where can I download it?.. Im a registered user and everything?..
i have edited the post once again and added a link to the users area where you can download it.
hey devs … good work … looks like 1.281 is a big weight old ship and 1.5 is a modern light but extremly powerful and fast ship … good work … i’m lovin’ it.
but it’s a little bit annoying that such major stuff like the editing of the pattern is still really bugy … but ok it’s an alpha … it seems that i must wait for the beta for making music with our new ship named Renoise 1.5. 
Thanks, me being slow, I forgot its user and not userS! lol
im having probs getting my 1.5 alpha…could someone look into that and send
me my 2 registered names/pass plz?! ive lost my hd and motherboard in a serious hardware failure…and for some reason the userlogin page doesnt seem to recognize my email adresses??..
cant w8 to play with 1.5 !! 
thnx in advance…
mlon
Amazing job! It is really responsive… I love the sequencer and the new reverbs (new alghorithm?) They sound really clean… Hats off here!
DDspeed: thankyou!
Awesome. Excellent interface, especially with all the keyboard shortcuts listed when the mouse moves over any interface. All boxes now can have text entered manually instead of having to click on the arrow… and i agree, the new reverbs sound great.
The new pattern editor is great, took about 2 seconds to figure out… now I can finally really start to use renoise for live performance, editing pattern sequences without changing the pattern that’s currently playing. And I just noticed the render selection to sample option… seriously useful items.
OMG! 1.5 is sweet !!!
mlon
Multi output is not supported yet. Taktik had no time finishing it for this release.
the good:
what a freakin’ good job you did with v1.5.
it’s really gorgeous - the new (splendid looking) GUI, the pattern sequencer (with patternnames), the render to sample option, the enhanced sample editor (undo function, variable volume), the new native reverb, the context sensitive menues and so on and so forth…
this is a very promising alpha version, which of course, still harbours some bugs and issues, but as soon as these are gone, we should’ve the most wonderful tracking tool ever created.
renoise 1.281 was and is awesome, but this is most probably going to be the climax of modern tracking.
all my respect and available thumbs up! 
the bad:
personally, the greatest disappointment with 1.5 is the incompatibility (severe performance loss) with Intel’s HyperThreading… please please please get this fixed for the final, elsewhat it’ll be a true pain to always switch from HT=ON to HT=OFF from within the BIOS.
thanks for everything.
What’s the problem? I haven’t tested the 1.5 much yet, but so far I’ve noticed no performance issues. And I have HT. If anything, 1.5 is faster than before.
Renoise 1.5 is faster for me as well with HT enabled.
Ouh, lovely GUI, fast and even the mixing is faster than in 181.
I checked a song that would hardly run on a P-III-500 and it ran much better on 1.5 . But there are some differences playing the 181-mods.
I have to check out a lot. No, I need to sleep. What an alpha, I need to sleep.
And thanks that you devs did care about selfmade beat shuffles!
You can choose if VST’s should get Speed&BPM or just BPM for sync.
You guys really care a lot. Thank you so much.
Edit: not 181, 1.281! I need to sleep.
JUHHUUUUU
dance dance
HEY!!! Did you notice new effects??? mpReverb and MixerEQ. They’re great!!!
YEAH!!
I’ve been playing with Renoise 1.5 all day (after not sleeping last night), and these are my findings so far, in random order:
First, it’s been said before, but goddamnit you guys created a rocking interface! VERY nice! The ability to show / hide the panels is just genius, and I love the slick looking metal backdrop 
It took a while to get used to the new drag-and-drop functionality, but once I did, it felt awesome and saved a bit of time.
The delay sounds a bit different, and produces a delay that’s not quite what I expected. It sounds as if the delay starts too soon, and the left/right values are different even if I set them to be the same.
mpReverb - I LOVE IT. A really nice addition to the standard set of DSPs.
I’ve had six or seven crashes so far, but hey, it’s an alpha, I wouldn’t expect anything else. I’ll try to narrow down when those crashes happen and file a bug report.
But: Every time Renoise crashed the song was saved. This is WAY better than in Renoise 1.28 
Overall, you guys have made me a very happy man and I’ll probably be using Renoise 1.5 despite the crashes. Good job!
edit:
YES!
Awesome, I didn’t even notice… this is great!
Register now and you’ll get the alpha 